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Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disasterTokyo (AFP) May 3, 2011 Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. The massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out reactor cooling systems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo, where workers are battling to prevent radiation leaks and a total meltdown. Although Japan is reliant on atomic power and leads the world in developing humano ... read more |
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  Exploring Rio Tinto Eurobotically No wonder it is called Red River: it looks like it could be on the red planet rather than in Spain. The landscape and terrain make it a perfect place for simulating a Mars sortie. An ESA rover ... more | .. |
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  Portable tech might provide drinking water and power to villages Researchers have developed an aluminum alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electri ... more | .. |
  Grad to take Academy experiment into space An Air Force Academy graduate will pilot the Space Shuttle Endeavour and carry an Air Force Academy physics experiment into space. Endeavour is scheduled to launch April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT fr ... more | .. |
  Cargo Craft Launches as Crew Prepares for Space Shuttle The ISS Progress 42 resupply craft launched Wednesday morning to replenish the International Space Station. Launch was at 9:05 a.m. EDT (7:05 p.m. Kazakhstan time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The ... more | .. |
  NASA Technology Looks Inside Japan's Nuclear Reactor Design techniques honed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for Mars rovers were used to create the rover currently examining the inside of Japan's nuclear reactors, in areas no ... more |
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 Irobot Awarded 230 Million From US Navy iRobot has announced that it received a $230 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on April 12, 2011. Under the contract's terms, ... more | .. |
  Searching for dark matter and antimatter The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) will be located outside the International Space Station (ISS) and will use its various detectors to seek cosmic radiation in space. On 29 April 2011, at 21:47 C ... more | .. |
  Researchers build time machine to visually explore space and time Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, ... more | .. |
  Tugboats in Space Rendezvous and docking in orbit is tricky. Take a huge, complex target like the International Space Station, and the task becomes even trickier. The problems of getting spacecraft to dock with ... more |
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  Japan says Fukushima 'different from Chernobyl' Japan said on Tuesday, the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, that its six-week-old Fukushima nuclear crisis was "different in nature" from the events in Ukraine. ... more | .. |
  Japan Livedoor tycoon Horie to be jailed Japan's brash Livedoor Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie will be jailed after losing his final appeal against a conviction for accounting fraud, a judicial official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Underwater robots join search for tsunami victims Two underwater robots operated by a joint US-Japanese team have searched a bay in northeast Japan for bodies of victims swept away by a tsunami nearly six weeks ago, officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Paparazzi In Space For the second time, an attempt to take a photograph of a Space Shuttle docked with the International Space Station has been thwarted. Russia has again declined to undock a Soyuz spacecraft for a ph ... more |
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Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts
Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution
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 CSA Celebrates A Decade Of Success With Canadarm2 Ten years ago, Canadarm2 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. A larger, more robust successor to the Shuttle's Canadarm, Canadarm2 has provided a ... more | .. |
S. Korean firm unveils robot playmate for kids South Korean telecoms operator KT on Wednesday rolled out a robot playmate for children in a move aimed at cashing in on the potentially lucrative industry. ... more | .. |
  Introducing World's First Intubation Robot First there was McSleepy. Now it's time to introduce the first intubation robot operated by remote control. This robotic system named The Kepler Intubation System (KIS), and developed by Dr. Thomas ... more | .. |
 Robot readings in Japan nuke plant 'harsh' Remote-control robots at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have measured a "harsh environment" for humans to work in, officials said. ... more |
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 Roberto Vittori's DAMA Mission To ISS ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori is set to fly on the next Space Shuttle mission in late April to deliver the large Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer science payload to the International Space Station. Dedic ... more | .. |
  High-tech weapons sow fears of chip sabotage As NATO countries weigh whether to arm Libya's rebels, military planners may give a thought to adding a remote "kill switch" to some weapons to keep them out of the wrong hands, experts say. ... more | .. |
  Clinton vows full support for disaster-hit Japan US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged full support for quake-hit Japan on Sunday as the operator of its stricken nuclear plant said it expects to achieve "cold shutdown" in six to nine months. ... more | .. |
 TEPCO president under fire from Japan lawmakers Japanese lawmakers on Monday grilled the president of the company at the centre of the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, demanding he take responsibility for the disaster. ... more |
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 TEPCO president under fire from Japan lawmakers Japanese lawmakers on Monday grilled the president of the company at the centre of the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, demanding he take responsibility for the disaster. ... more | .. |
  No Fleet Future For X-37B The second flight of the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has been underway for weeks. During this time, the USAF has been fairly quiet about its operations, but this hasn't stopped amateur satellite ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover's 'Gagarin' Moment Applauded Exploration A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's Vosto ... more | .. |
  Drone 'friendly fire' kills two US troops: officials A drone missile strike killed a US Marine and a Navy corpsman last week by mistake, in what appeared to be the first instance US troops had been killed in a "friendly fire" incident involving an unmanned aircraft, defense officials said Monday. ... more |
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  Naveen Jain Co-Founder And Chairman Of Moon Express Naveen Jain shared with colleagues at the annual Explorers Club Awards Dinner in New York that he is Co-Founder and Chairman of Moon Express, Inc., winner of a $10M NASA commercial lunar contract an ... more | .. |
  Gerd Gruppe Takes Office As Director Of DLR Space Administration Gerd Gruppe took up his post as Director of Space Administration at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), joining DLR's Executive Board and filling a vacancy ... more | .. |
  NASA's JWST Marks Milestone With Completion Of Huge Assembly Stand For Flight Optics A giant structural steel frame used to assemble the eye of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed by Northrop Grumman teammate ITT at a facility in Syracuse, N.Y. Northrop Grumman is l ... more | .. |
 Gagarin anniversary: Are manned missions a waste of space? On Tuesday, the world will be awash with talk of courage and vision as it looks back on 50 years of manned space flight, a trail blazed by Yuri Gagarin's 108-minute trip around the planet. ... more |
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